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- 5061: Miles Davis
- ... Teo Macero. The post-production editing served his client Miles well by sensibly featuring his presence but, at the same time, erased many solos of the other band members and sliced away development segments. In short, we would like to hear for ourselves the tooling around producers argue they are sparing us from, says Teo. For a future re-issue, it would be terrific if Columbia restored the entire sets and ...
- 5062: MARGARET ATWOOD
- ... amnesia. But when Dr. Jordan's arsenal of root vegetables fails to provoke, by association, memories of the cellar where Nancy Montgomery's body was found, Grace is off and running, weaving a skein of stories, and like any Scheherazade worth her salt, delays the ending. She quickly learns which details excite him and does her best to provide him with as much material as he can handle. Dr. Jordan thinks ...
- 5063: Isaac Newton
- ... brought home to help her. As a farmer, Newton proved to be a dismal failure. He neglected the necessary chores and thought only of books to study and mechanical things to make. There are many stories about him at that time that show how absent minded he was becoming. One day while he was leading a horse, the animal slipped its bridle and ran away. Isaac continued walking home with the ...
- 5064: Marco Polo
- ... the book was circulated even more widely. Many people thought that the book was a fable or a gross exaggeration. A few learned men believed that Marco wrote truly, however, and they spread Marco's stories of faraway places and unknown peoples. Today geographers agree that Marco's book is amazingly accurate. Marco Polo was born in the city-republic of Venice in 1254. His father and uncles were merchants who ...
- 5065: Mohandas Gandhi
- ... British jails or the British guns. It was evident now, that the British Government in India was inevitably going to fall. After many failures to reach an agreement with the British Government and after a short 'Individual Civil Disobedience' movement where many were imprisoned, the British finally gave the power to the Indians in 1946. But, the question remained as to whether or not the area should be separated into two ...
- 5066: Desiderius Erasmus
- ... of Folly, a satire which pointed out major problems in the clergy, saying that monks were beggars, the clergy was greedy, and that the pope had no resemblance to the Apostles. He also wrote a short satirical skit in which Pope Julius II had trouble getting into heaven. In the skit, Pope Julius II is made out to be more of a Muslim than a Catholic. Writing this had to take ...
- 5067: Computer Communications
- ... messages until my fingers bled, I began to notice the little things. Electronic mail addresses started popping up on business cards. Those otherwise-incomprehensible computer magazines that my dad brought home from work ran monthly stories on communications-program this, and Internet-system that. Cleveland Freenet's Freeport software began appearing on systems all over the world, in places as far away as Finland and Germany - with free telnet access! I ...
- 5068: Charles Darwin
- ... theory of evolution known as "Natural Selection." Darwin had left England as a youthful collector and returned as a dedicated naturalist. Before the journey, he believed like Henslow, that the history of the earth was short and whatever changes occurred were the result of vast catastrophes. By his return, he was convinced that the earth was extremely old and its evolution was the result of many small changes. Natural Selection, proposed ...
- 5069: America and the Computer Industry
- ... John Eckert, Jr. in the 1950's. Together they had formed the Mauchley-Eckert Computer Corporation, America's first computer company in the 1940's. During the development of the UNIVAC, they began to run short on funds and sold their company to the larger Remington-Rand Corporation. Eventually they built a working UNIVAC computer. It was delivered to the U.S. Census Bureau in 1951 where it was used to ...
- 5070: Fidel Castro: How One Man With A Cigar Dominated American Foreign Policy
- ... political liability. (16) The new American policy, not announced as such, but implicit in the the actions of the United States government was one of overthrowing Castro by all means available to the U.S. short of open employment of American armed forces in Cuba. It was at this time that the controversial decision was taken to allow the CIA to begin recruiting and training of ex-Cuban exiles for anti ...
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